Rack Elevation Diagrams: Your Ultimate Guide
By Fred Koh - February 16, 2022I think it would be fair to call the team experts in diagrams. Afterall, we make netTerrain — IT mapping/documentation software for networks (Logical) and data centers (DCIM) with an add-on module for fiber plants (OSP). One of the most frequently asked questions we get is, ‘hey, what’s the difference between your Logical and Data…
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Why Tiered Support Can Bring You “Teared” Support
By Fred Koh - January 28, 2022When something goes wrong with an application, or if your internet or cable tv goes out, the first thing you do is contact customer support and pray that you won’t get a robo service and end up stuck in a loop of pressing buttons just to try and reach someone, right? We’ve all been there…
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Graphical Networks Exhibits at BICSI Winter 2022
By Hannah Ash - January 24, 2022Graphical Networks, makers of netTerrain — IT visualization software used by hundreds of fiber professionals to help document and manage the fiber plant — will be attending the upcoming BICSI Winter Conference and Exposition 2022 in sunny Orlando, Florida . The exhibit hall opens on January 31st – February 2nd at the Orlando World Center…
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ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from DCIM Software
By Jan Durnhofer - December 30, 2021In this blog, the fifth and final part of our ROI series on network mapping and DCIM, we’re looking at a return on investment calculation for data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software. In the previous blog, we analyzed which are the potential areas for savings, so If your area of implementation is DCIM, asset management…
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ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: DCIM Analysis
By Jan Durnhofer -In this blog, the fourth part in our ROI series, we’ll do a return on investment (ROI) analysis for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software. If your main pain point is a lack of control over your Data Center spending, inefficient use of your space, power and cooling — and/or overall deficient asset and cabling…
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ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from Network Mapping Software
By Jan Durnhofer -In this blog series, we’re diving into return-on-investment analyses for network mapping and data center infrastructure software. If network documentation and network mapping software can solve your pain points, then this blog and the previous one are for you. If you’re looking for savings in the Data Center, rack documentation, cabling, power and cooling and…
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ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: Network Mapping Analysis
By Jan Durnhofer -In this, the second blog of the ROI series, we’ll do a return on investment (ROI) analysis for network documentation and network mapping software. If your main pain point is a lack of IT and network visibility and you need a better way to document and map your network and you were looking at netTerrain…
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ROI for Network Documentation & DCIM Software: Basics
By Jan Durnhofer -Whether your organization is investing in a network documentation system, or a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system (or something similar), chances are that, to secure funding for purchasing the software, you may need a certain level of approval. While it may seem painfully obvious to you as to why operations will run a lot…
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Easily Visualize Your Data Center Floor Plan
By Jan Durnhofer - December 23, 2021One of the things that you may want to document in a Data Center Infrastructure Management System (DCIM) like our software netTerrain is how objects like racks or power equipment are distributed in a data center floor plan. When you’re documenting a data center floor plan, there are lots of objects that you may want…
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3 Big Fat Myths About DCIM Software
By Fred Koh - December 21, 2021Here at Graphical Networks, we make netTerrain Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software: it’s used by hundreds of organizations to document and manage their data centers space, power, and cabling capacity. It can be used to not only document your data center rooms, but also your telecom rooms and even your office floor space too….
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Scanning QR Codes in Your Data Center Using netTerrain
By Jan Durnhofer -With the release of version 9.1, netTerrain has a new feature for scanning QR codes using the netTerrain mobile app. The ability to scan QR codes is most useful in a data center environment (as you may want to quickly identify and locate a device in your IT inventory — for example: you may want…
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Shadow IT? Mitigate Your Risks with Network Documentation
By Jan Durnhofer - December 17, 2021The threat of Shadow IT… it sounds like something out of a Stephen King book or B-horror movie. I can see it now: “scary IT resources that are lurking and waiting — in the shadows — to attack at any minute or hour…coming to a network near you!” In this blog, we’ll look at what…
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